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| Author | Raúl Váldez Vivó |
|---|---|
| First published | 1978 New York |
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Hồ Chí Minh | |
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 Portrait of comrade Ho Chi Minh | |
| Born | Nguyễn Sinh Cung May 19, 1890 Kim Liên, Nghệ An Province, French Indochina |
| Died | September 2, 1969 (aged 79) Hanoi, North Vietnam |
| Cause of death | Heart failure |
| Nationality | Vietnamese |
| Political orientation | Marxism-Leninism Ho Chi Minh Thought |
Ho Chi Minh[a] (Chữ quốc ngữ: Hồ Chí Minh; Hanzi: 胡志明; May 19th, 1890 — September 2nd, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary. He is colloquially known in Vietnam by the nickname Uncle Ho. Although throughout his life, he has used from 50 to 200 pseudonyms in order to conduct his revolutionary activities.[1] Aside from being a revolutionary, Ho Chi Minh was also a writer, a poet and a journalist highly critical towards colonialism and imperialism. He wrote many books, articles and poems in French, Chinese and Vietnamese is also a polyglot. Ho Chi Minh is famous for his 30 years of traveling around the globe, learning from western bourgeois regimes and finally stumbled on Marxism–Leninism.
Ho Chi Minh joined the Communist Party of France in 1920, studied in the Soviet Union in 1923, joined the Communist International in 1924, and carried out revolutionary activities in China from 1924 to 1927. In 1930, he founded the Communist Party of Indochina, and in 1941 he initiated the establishment of the Vietnam Independence League, which led the struggle against the French colonialists and Japanese imperialism.
Ho Chi Minh was elected President and Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in March 1946, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Labor Party (now the Communist Party of Vietnam) from February 1951 to 1969, and led the war against the French colonialists from 1945 to 1954, and the war against the United States and its lackeys in the 1960s. He passed away in Hanoi on September 2, 1969, at the age of 79. In 1976 - one year after the Liberation of Saigon, the city was name Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the former revolutionary and father of the nation.
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by ComradeBirdyBird
Published: 2021-05-18 (last update: 2024-09-24)
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We are surrounded by accusations, criticism, respect and deference to and for the Middle Kingdom. Let's try to understand the country for once. Whether actions or lack of actions are good or bad is complicated to discern, as it often depends on one's perspective. Based on this, I offer the following reasoning.
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- ↑ Dennis Duncanson (1957). Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong 1931–1932 (p. 85). The China Quarterly.